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Woefuldane Bottom & Woefuldane Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Minchinhampton

Historical Forms

  • Wulfham Dene 14 BGliv,311
  • Dane Bottom 1830 M

Etymology

, Wulfham Dene 14 BG liv, 311, Dane Bottom 1830 M ; Rudder 468 has an unsubstantiated tale of the place being the site of ' a greatbattle between Wolphgang the Saxon and Uffa the Dane ' but Dane Bottom simply means ' valley bottom ' , v. denu , cf. Phonol. § 13 ; the first el . is ' wolf meadow ' , v. wulf , hamm ; Woeful Lake (204infra ) is also an adaptation of an older p.n .